Azure Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Microsoft Azure
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring Azure skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 17 25 19
Rank change year-on-year +8 -6 -11
Contract jobs citing Azure 104 15 42
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 12.29% 5.47% 9.42%
As % of the Cloud Services category 28.65% 20.27% 38.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 11 36
10th Percentile £372 £481 £185
25th Percentile £450 £488 £344
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.92% -5.45% -8.33%
75th Percentile £569 £625 £641
90th Percentile £688 £650 £938
Yorkshire median daily rate £479 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +0.74% -5.00% -9.09%

All Cloud Computing Skills
South Yorkshire

Azure falls under the Cloud Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring cloud computing skills in South Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for cloud computing skills 363 74 109
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 42.91% 27.01% 24.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 52 88
10th Percentile £313 £366 £250
25th Percentile £413 £454 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £536 £531
Median % change year-on-year -9.10% +0.85% -3.41%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £600
90th Percentile £613 £650 £677
Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.50% -4.76%

Azure
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Azure relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

Azure job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Azure
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing Azure

Azure
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Azure in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Azure in South Yorkshire

Azure
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Azure within the South Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 25 January 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Sheffield +6 101 £505 -2.88% 30
Doncaster - 2 £525 - 28
Azure
Yorkshire

Azure
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (6.73%) Confluence
2 5 (4.81%) SharePoint
3 2 (1.92%) CICS
3 2 (1.92%) Tomcat
3 2 (1.92%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.96%) OpenStack
4 1 (0.96%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.96%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.96%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.96%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.96%) Elite 3E
2 1 (0.96%) NetSuite
Cloud Services
1 73 (70.19%) AWS
2 66 (63.46%) GCP
3 21 (20.19%) Entra ID
4 14 (13.46%) OpenShift
5 10 (9.62%) GitHub
5 10 (9.62%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
6 8 (7.69%) Power Platform
7 7 (6.73%) SaaS
8 6 (5.77%) AWS CloudFormation
9 5 (4.81%) Google Kubernetes Engine
9 5 (4.81%) OneDrive
10 4 (3.85%) Akamai
11 3 (2.88%) Azure AKS
11 3 (2.88%) Cloudflare
11 3 (2.88%) GitHub Actions
11 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Copilot
11 3 (2.88%) Serverless
12 2 (1.92%) Azure Data Factory
12 2 (1.92%) Azure Functions
Communications & Networking
1 15 (14.42%) Firewall
2 8 (7.69%) DNS
3 6 (5.77%) TCP/IP
4 5 (4.81%) VPN
5 4 (3.85%) HTTP
5 4 (3.85%) Kerberos
6 3 (2.88%) HTTPS
7 2 (1.92%) Fibre Channel
7 2 (1.92%) iSCSI
7 2 (1.92%) LAN
7 2 (1.92%) NAS
7 2 (1.92%) Network Security
7 2 (1.92%) Reverse Proxy
7 2 (1.92%) SAN
7 2 (1.92%) SSL
7 2 (1.92%) VSAN
7 2 (1.92%) WAN
8 1 (0.96%) Cisco ASA
8 1 (0.96%) Cisco Firepower
8 1 (0.96%) FCoE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (10.58%) PostgreSQL
2 8 (7.69%) Power BI
3 7 (6.73%) SQL Server
4 5 (4.81%) MySQL
5 4 (3.85%) Metadata
5 4 (3.85%) Neo4j
6 3 (2.88%) BigQuery
6 3 (2.88%) MongoDB
6 3 (2.88%) NoSQL
7 2 (1.92%) DataStage
7 2 (1.92%) DB2
8 1 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
8 1 (0.96%) BusinessObjects
8 1 (0.96%) Elasticsearch
8 1 (0.96%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.96%) Redis
8 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
8 1 (0.96%) Spark SQL
8 1 (0.96%) SQL Server Reporting Services
8 1 (0.96%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 32 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 25 (24.04%) JIRA
3 23 (22.12%) GitLab
4 14 (13.46%) Selenium
5 11 (10.58%) Cucumber
5 11 (10.58%) Postman
5 11 (10.58%) REST Assured
6 8 (7.69%) Git
7 5 (4.81%) TestRail
8 4 (3.85%) Gatling
8 4 (3.85%) JMeter
8 4 (3.85%) LoadRunner
8 4 (3.85%) NeoLoad
9 3 (2.88%) CircleCI
10 2 (1.92%) JUnit
10 2 (1.92%) SoapUI
10 2 (1.92%) Sonatype Nexus
10 2 (1.92%) Zephyr
11 1 (0.96%) Maven
11 1 (0.96%) WebDriver
General
1 46 (44.23%) Social Skills
2 22 (21.15%) Finance
3 18 (17.31%) Banking
4 7 (6.73%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (6.73%) Public Sector
5 5 (4.81%) Law
5 5 (4.81%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (3.85%) Legal
7 3 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Financial Institution
8 2 (1.92%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (1.92%) Police
9 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (0.96%) Manufacturing
9 1 (0.96%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (0.96%) Private Banking
9 1 (0.96%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (16.35%) Architect
2 15 (14.42%) Lead
3 10 (9.62%) DevOps Engineer
4 9 (8.65%) Test Automation Engineer
4 9 (8.65%) Test Engineer
5 8 (7.69%) Developer
6 6 (5.77%) Automation Test Lead
6 6 (5.77%) Solutions Architect
7 5 (4.81%) Consultant
7 5 (4.81%) Senior
8 4 (3.85%) Analyst
8 4 (3.85%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
8 4 (3.85%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (3.85%) Lead Architect
8 4 (3.85%) Product Owner
8 4 (3.85%) Test Architect
8 4 (3.85%) Test Automation Architect
8 4 (3.85%) Test Leader
9 3 (2.88%) Lead Test Engineer
9 3 (2.88%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 24 (23.08%) LDAP
2 23 (22.12%) REST
3 21 (20.19%) OpenID
4 16 (15.38%) SailPoint
5 9 (8.65%) Middleware
6 8 (7.69%) OAuth
7 7 (6.73%) .NET
7 7 (6.73%) SAML
8 5 (4.81%) Kafka
9 4 (3.85%) JSON
9 4 (3.85%) Playwright
9 4 (3.85%) Regular Expression
9 4 (3.85%) XML
10 3 (2.88%) ARM Templates
10 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Graph
10 3 (2.88%) OpenCV
10 3 (2.88%) PyTorch
10 3 (2.88%) RESTful
10 3 (2.88%) SpaCy
10 3 (2.88%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 13 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 11 (10.58%) Hybrid Cloud
3 8 (7.69%) Data Centre
3 8 (7.69%) Onboarding
3 8 (7.69%) Product Ownership
4 4 (3.85%) IoT
5 3 (2.88%) Management Information System
5 3 (2.88%) Replication
5 3 (2.88%) Security Posture
6 2 (1.92%) Algorithms
6 2 (1.92%) Clustering
6 2 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.92%) Mainframe
6 2 (1.92%) Reference Data
7 1 (0.96%) Data Structures
7 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (0.96%) FMCG
7 1 (0.96%) NHS
7 1 (0.96%) Private Cloud
7 1 (0.96%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 12 (11.54%) Linux
2 9 (8.65%) Windows
3 4 (3.85%) Unix
4 2 (1.92%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (1.92%) Solaris
4 2 (1.92%) VMS
4 2 (1.92%) zOS
5 1 (0.96%) CentOS
5 1 (0.96%) MVS
5 1 (0.96%) Ubuntu
5 1 (0.96%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (50.96%) DevOps
2 49 (47.12%) CI/CD
3 27 (25.96%) Agile
4 24 (23.08%) Containerisation
4 24 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 20 (19.23%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (16.35%) Roadmaps
6 17 (16.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 16 (15.38%) Identity Access Management
7 16 (15.38%) Migration
7 16 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (14.42%) Stakeholder Management
9 14 (13.46%) API Testing
9 14 (13.46%) Data Ingestion
9 14 (13.46%) ETL
10 13 (12.50%) Root Cause Analysis
10 13 (12.50%) Test Strategy
11 12 (11.54%) Cybersecurity
11 12 (11.54%) GitOps
12 11 (10.58%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 34 (32.69%) Python
2 33 (31.73%) Java
3 26 (25.00%) SQL
4 13 (12.50%) PowerShell
5 10 (9.62%) Bash
6 6 (5.77%) JavaScript
7 5 (4.81%) PHP
8 4 (3.85%) Cypher
8 4 (3.85%) Go
8 4 (3.85%) Groovy
8 4 (3.85%) Scala
8 4 (3.85%) TypeScript
9 3 (2.88%) Bicep
10 2 (1.92%) C#
10 2 (1.92%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Certification
2 4 (3.85%) Degree
2 4 (3.85%) Security Cleared
3 3 (2.88%) CEH
3 3 (2.88%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (2.88%) GIAC
3 3 (2.88%) GWAPT
3 3 (2.88%) SAP Certification
4 2 (1.92%) Azure Certification
4 2 (1.92%) CISM
4 2 (1.92%) CISSP
4 2 (1.92%) ISTQB
5 1 (0.96%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.96%) AWS Certification
5 1 (0.96%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (0.96%) CCA
5 1 (0.96%) CCSK
5 1 (0.96%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.96%) Citrix Certification
5 1 (0.96%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (9.62%) QA
2 5 (4.81%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.85%) GDPR
3 4 (3.85%) SLA
4 3 (2.88%) HIPAA
4 3 (2.88%) SOC 2
5 2 (1.92%) PCI DSS
5 2 (1.92%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 1 (0.96%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.96%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.96%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.96%) NIST
System Software
1 15 (14.42%) Docker
2 13 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 6 (5.77%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (4.81%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
4 5 (4.81%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.88%) Hyper-V
5 3 (2.88%) KVM
6 2 (1.92%) NFS
6 2 (1.92%) VMware NSX
6 2 (1.92%) vSphere
7 1 (0.96%) Ceph
7 1 (0.96%) QEMU
7 1 (0.96%) Snort
7 1 (0.96%) SRDF
7 1 (0.96%) Veritas Cluster Server
7 1 (0.96%) Virtual Desktop
7 1 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (0.96%) Xen
7 1 (0.96%) XenApp
7 1 (0.96%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 33 (31.73%) Kubernetes
2 28 (26.92%) Terraform
3 23 (22.12%) Ansible
4 8 (7.69%) Grafana
5 4 (3.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 4 (3.85%) Prometheus
6 2 (1.92%) Argo
6 2 (1.92%) CSIRT
6 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Intune
6 2 (1.92%) Puppet
6 2 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.96%) Docker Swarm
7 1 (0.96%) Kibana
7 1 (0.96%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.96%) logstash
7 1 (0.96%) Podman
7 1 (0.96%) Progress Chef
7 1 (0.96%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 21 (20.19%) Microsoft
2 19 (18.27%) ServiceNow
3 18 (17.31%) Google
4 14 (13.46%) F5
5 10 (9.62%) Oracle
6 7 (6.73%) Splunk
7 6 (5.77%) VMware
8 5 (4.81%) Cisco
9 4 (3.85%) Imperva
9 4 (3.85%) NetApp
9 4 (3.85%) OpenAI
9 4 (3.85%) SAP
10 3 (2.88%) Alibaba
10 3 (2.88%) AppDynamics
10 3 (2.88%) EMC
10 3 (2.88%) MuleSoft
11 2 (1.92%) Delphix
11 2 (1.92%) Informatica
11 2 (1.92%) Okta
11 2 (1.92%) Ping Identity